Studying the Italian Language
and culture in the comfort
of a teaching host family
in Tuscany.
Enjoy the advantage of a natural assimilation of the Italian language and culture. Italian is a melodious
and charming language, enchanting to listen to, and a delight to speak.
A few excellent reasons for studying Italian are
that Italy is a world leader in manufacturing,
import-export activities, in an extensive range of fashion articles, in interior and
furniture design, automobiles and motor cycles, and other commercial activities.
Italian is indispensable for students
of art, music, law, European history and archaeology.
The artistic and literary heritage of Italy is an exaltation of
the Genius Loci. Tuscany in particular has its great poets - Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch, its mighty master, and Leonardo da Vinci,
who created a new universe here on earth. It gave the world, among many others, the ageless, muscular art and brawny sculpture of
Michelangelo to which we can add such great geniuses as Galileo, Macchiavelli, Giotto, Botticelli, Brunelleschi....
Over
60 percent of the world's greatest art treasures are in Italy.
Italian explorers include Christopher Columbus, Giovanni
Caboto (John Cabot), Giovanni da Verrazzano, and Amerigo Vespucci - the man who gave his name to America.